We're Supposed to Blog About the Editing Process

I must say, I was really surprised that no one criticized/complained about/put large Xs through the preachy/rant-y sections of my essay. Those were the sections that bothered (and continue to bother) me the most... maybe you didn't want to insult me? I'm actually a little confused... but, those will certainly be the first sections to go. Or maybe I won't delete them entirely... but they'll certainly get tweaked. 

For Andrew, I will see if some of the dashes can go... which is tough because I think in dashes. If you could see my thoughts (er... maybe that wouldn't be  a good idea) typed out, it would be all sorts of dashes and dots. But my writing doesn't have to look exactly like my thinking. Hopefully, at least, my writing will be more linear... less never-ending forever-branching rabbit holes. 

Thankfully I don't have to add much in terms of length... maybe just erase some superfluous stuff and elaborate on the more meaningful stuff (and I'm identifying what was meaningful by looking at the parts in which there was consensus about it being impact-ful)

Oh boy, this is gonna be fun.